County court at law or district court. The old phrase is gone.
The bill changes where a person can go to court to challenge a final Texas Workforce Commission decision on unemployment benefits. It lets the challenge be filed in a county court at law or a district court, replacing the old phrase "court of competent jurisdiction." It touches workers and employers in unemployment disputes, and it applies to commission decisions that become final on or after September 1, 2025.
Labels
Labels: CROSS-PARTY HANDOFF. Lead author Denise Villalobos (R) in the House. Lead sponsor Carol Alvarado (D) in the Senate. Party as the Legislative Reference Library lists it for the 89th Legislature.
relating to judicial review of a Texas Workforce Commission
decision in an unemployment compensation proceeding.
WHAT IT DOES
County court at law or district court. The old phrase is gone.
The bill changes where a person can go to court to challenge a final Texas Workforce Commission decision on unemployment benefits. It lets the challenge be filed in a county court at law or a district court, replacing the old phrase "court of competent jurisdiction." It touches workers and employers in unemployment disputes, and it applies to commission decisions that become final on or after September 1, 2025.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Alvarado moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 2760 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. The bill was read third time and was passed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Alvarado moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 2760 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
House committee · Trade, Workforce & Economic Development · Committee vote 9 aye, 0 nay, 2 absent · Out of committee
Senate committee · Economic Development · Committee vote 5 aye, 0 nay · Out of committee
Subjects
Courts--County & Statutory
Courts--District
Labor--Unemployment
WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS
Text
The text as introduced · 203 words
89R12388 DNC-D
By: Villalobos
H.B. No. 2760
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to judicial review of a Texas Workforce Commission
decision in an unemployment compensation proceeding.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 212.201(a), Labor Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A party aggrieved by a final decision of the commission
may obtain judicial review of the decision by bringing an action in
a county court at law or district court [ of competent jurisdiction ]
for review of the decision against the commission on or after the
date on which the decision is final, and not later than the 14th day
after that date.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to judicial review of a Texas Workforce Commission decision that
becomes final on or after the effective date of this Act. Judicial
review of a Texas Workforce Commission decision that becomes final
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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